Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Let’s see why a positive culture is vital to thriving organizations. Why is positivity important for organizations? It “broadens people’s thought-action repertoires and builds their enduring personal resources” (Frederickson, 2003). How does your organization think and act? How does “negative” harm performance?

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Mike Cardus

JULY 11, 2011

Working with an organization that employs over 2000 employees that was in need of a Managerial Leadership Training Program for their Director Level Staff. I consulted and led a 6 month coaching and training process with the Executive Vice President of Human Resources and 14 of the Associate Vice Presidents.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Pleasingly, for those of us who have long been advocating greater employer investment in the workforce, new research from Warwick Business School suggests that those organizations that have done this are likely to be buffered from the worst of the Covid recession. Building the contract. Developing the workforce.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

On February 4th, 2004, Harvard undergraduate Mark Zuckerberg launched “Thefacebook.” Of course, Facebook’s organization kept growing, so we kept watching it for lessons that might apply to other situations. Obviously in a talent-hungry organization, those were brains that could have been deployed to pressing work.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Here are four examples: The Bay Area Workforce Funding Collaborative , founded in 2004, unites local governments, community colleges, and businesses in the San Francisco area. The evidence points to the potential for improving disadvantaged workers' career prospects more than traditional offerings from the U.S. Identify a network integrator.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

The truth of the matter is that business leaders are the ones adding complexity to their organizations. By 2004, sales and profits were in double digit declines. With 60% of annual sales coming from innovative new products, it is clear that LEGO has not been idle. Complexity had brought LEGO to its knees. In-N-Out Burger.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Make you more innovative. On making a list of their relationships, even highly experienced leaders find that they’ve failed to network with people who are different from them or to build bridges across and outside their organization’s lines. 2 (2004): 349–399. It can keep you informed. Teach you new things.

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